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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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2. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






3. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






4. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






5. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






6. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






7. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






8. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






9. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






10. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






11. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






13. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






14. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






15. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






16. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






17. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






18. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






20. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






21. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






22. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






23. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






24. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






25. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






27. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






28. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






29. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






30. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






31. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






33. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






34. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






35. A poem that tells a story.






36. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






37. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






38. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






39. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






40. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






41. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






42. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






43. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






44. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






45. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






46. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






47. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






48. A strong pause within a line.






49. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






50. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.







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